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You could rely on government to try to rein them in — good luck. Didn’t work with Ma Bell, the pieces still charged $3 a minute. Or you could contribute to ope

by EGreg 3y ago

You could rely on government to try to rein them in — good luck. Didn’t work with Ma Bell, the pieces still charged $3 a minute. Or you could contribute to open protocols, and do to the tech giants what: The Web did to AOL, MSN, etc. VoIP did to AT&T, Sprint, etc. Wikipedia did to Britannica OpenStreetMap will do to Google Maps etc. Open, permissionless networks beat closed, proprietary ones once they are good enough. I spent 10 years and over $1 million from my company’s revenues to build an open source social operating system to power pretty much all the applications you’d want: https://qbix.com https://qbix.com Hope it helps! About to release v2.0 on GitHub https://github.com/Qbix/Platform https://github.com/Qbix/Platform (And 5 years ago spun off https://intercoin.org/applications https://intercoin.org/applications — we are still in the development stage on that one).

Pako 3y ago
It took me a while to even begin to understand what Qbix is trying to sell people on. In my humble opinion the website is a disaster, especially on mobile. After a few minutes all I could gather was that it claims itself to be a "social operating system" (nice buzzword). After exploring the GitHub readme it got a bit clearer but it kinda "just" seems like WordPress but for websites seeking out more user interaction? I have not looked into it too deeply, but I also have not seen any mention of any sort of open standards that would lift Qbix from being another vendor to be locked into. No OID/OID Connect, ActivityPub, etc. Instead it mentions integration with Facebook of all things. Where is the openness?
opportune 3y ago
I went to your website, selected “I’m a software developer”, tried to select “what it’s all about” and nothing happened. Doesn’t really give me confidence in the technology or make me inclined to spend time watching the videos on the same page I’m using Firefox Focus on an iPhone 14, iOS 16.6.1
Shish2k 3y ago
> Open, permissionless networks beat closed, proprietary ones once they are good enough. Generally yes, but not necessarily - look at what happened when we (the nerds who write free software) collectively decided that IRC was “good enough” :(
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y ago
  The first time I ever saw IRC being used was by a non-technical person in a computer lab.

by EGreg 3y ago

Pako 3y ago

It took me a while to even begin to understand what Qbix is trying to sell people on. In my humble opinion the website is a disaster, especially on mobile. After a few minutes all I could gather was that it claims itself to be a "social operating system" (nice buzzword). After exploring the GitHub readme it got a bit clearer but it kinda "just" seems like WordPress but for websites seeking out more user interaction? I have not looked into it too deeply, but I also have not seen any mention of any sort of open standards that would lift Qbix from being another vendor to be locked into. No OID/OID Connect, ActivityPub, etc. Instead it mentions integration with Facebook of all things. Where is the openness?

opportune 3y ago

I went to your website, selected “I’m a software developer”, tried to select “what it’s all about” and nothing happened. Doesn’t really give me confidence in the technology or make me inclined to spend time watching the videos on the same page I’m using Firefox Focus on an iPhone 14, iOS 16.6.1

Shish2k 3y ago

> Open, permissionless networks beat closed, proprietary ones once they are good enough. Generally yes, but not necessarily - look at what happened when we (the nerds who write free software) collectively decided that IRC was “good enough” :(

PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y ago
The first time I ever saw IRC being used was by a non-technical person in a computer lab.